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He went out into the hall with the driver, and had another word in secret with him before the footman opened the door. As the door closed Mr. Tertius turned slowly back to the study. And as he turned he muttered a word or two and smiled cynically. "A diamond ring!" he said. "Jacob Herapath never wore a diamond ring in his life!"
At the same moment the Sixth-Form boy at the head of the table left his place and bore down on the offenders. "Cave!" muttered Arthur, purple in the face; "here's Ainger." Instantly the party was thoroughly buried in its bread and cheese. "Was that you, Oakshott, making that row?" "I was only saying something to Herapath," replied the innocent; "I'm sure I didn't make a row."
Halfpenny's office. Even Markledew was not so keen about the Herapath affair as he had been. His policy was a new day, a new affair. The Herapath mystery was becoming a little stale it would get staler unless a fresh and startling development took place.
"That's right, Mr Bickers," said the baronet, nobly backing up his friend; "he's spoo I mean he's engaged to Daisy, Herapath's sister." "Silence, sir," said the master with a curl of his lips. "Herapath, come here, and hold out your hand." So saying, he took up a ruler from a desk close at hand.
And the result of our deliberations was that we got an interview at least I did with Mrs. Engledew here, with respect to the diamonds which she had entrusted to Jacob Herapath. And " "I should like to ask you a question, Mrs. Engledew," said Cox-Raythwaite, interrupting Burchill without ceremony. "Why did you not inform the police about your diamonds as soon as you heard of the murder?" Mrs.
"Which, on being inspected," continued Barthorpe, "proved to be a holograph " "Pardon," interrupted Burchill, "a holograph? Now, I am very ignorant. What is a holograph?" "A holograph will is a will entirely written in the handwriting of the person who makes it," replied Barthorpe. "I see. So this was written out by Mr. Jacob Herapath, and witnessed by whom?" asked Burchill.
"Don't know," said Dig evasively; "better not stick it down, that is, not unless the list gets full up, you know." Simson treated this evasive reply as a consent, and wrote Digs name down, there and then, in his presence. "Come on, Herapath," said he, making a last appeal. "Don't desert your old friends." "I tell you I can't say anything till to-morrow," said Arthur, a little crusty.
Some of the time I was some of it I'd my back to it." "You never saw any one enter the archway during the time Mr. Herapath was in the office?" "No, sir." "All the same, some one could have come here during that time without your seeing him?" "Oh, yes, sir!" "Well, at last Mr. Herapath came out. Where did he rejoin you?"
"What is known of this in Portman Square, Mr. Selwood?" he inquired. "Tell me, briefly." Selwood, who had only met Barthorpe Herapath once or twice, and who had formed an instinctive and peculiar dislike to him, for which he could not account, accepted the invitation to be brief. In a few words he told exactly what had happened at Jacob Herapath's house.
When he left Portland he came to me here in London at the suggestion of Jacob Herapath. I then lived in Bloomsbury I had recently lost my wife. I took Wynne to live with me. But he had not long to live. If you had searched into matters more deeply, you would have found that he got his discharge earlier than he would have done in the usual course, because of his health.
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